If you couldn't make it to Las Vegas, there's still time to get to SAP TechEd Barcelona
SAP TechEd Las Vegas exceeded all expectations this year, but don’t just take my word for it. Here’s how Björn Goerke, Chief Technology Officer and President of SAP Cloud Platform, still wearing his Star Trek uniform as Captain James T. Kirk, summed up what made this year’s event so awesome in our on-stage
VIDEO interview:
http://events.sap.com/embed/1e73sgu5
“We had a fantastic crowd coming together with different people from a lot of diverse backgrounds, and everybody exchanging ideas,” said Goerke. “We’re discussing where things are going with digital transformation, and we have a ton of new technologies and components that we’ve released; products like the SAP Data Hub, the
machine learning platform, blockchain,
IoT -- you name it, it’s all here. This is where the fun starts, and this is where you learn about SAP and the products we have."
Openness rules
My major takeaway from this year’s SAP TechEd is how SAP has become a world-class powerhouse for open, agile innovation. The proof was in a slew of co-innovation announcements with the likes of Cloud Foundry and the Cloud Native Computer Foundation, plus expanded cloud services on the
SAP Cloud Platform.
Some of the loudest applause from the 6,000-strong crowd was for the release of the
SAP S/4HANA Cloud SDK, the public beta of the
SAP Cloud Platform on the Google Cloud Platform, and a sneak preview of the ABAP solution-as-a-service on the SAP Cloud Platform. In my summary
blog of Goerke’s keynote, I wrote about how the
SAP Data Hub solution represented a fundamental shift in data governance, pipelining and sharing, and many event attendees agreed ─ “An Introduction to SAP Data Hub” was among the most popular lectures of the week.
It’s not too late to watch
I don’t have space to share the details of the 1,000-plus total sessions including Lectures, Strategy Talks, Innovation Talks, and hands-on workshops with experts and partners at the hands-on Developers Garage, lively Community Clubhouse (Pepper the robot was a major hit), and insightful Solution Center. People couldn’t get enough of the hands-on, “SAP Technology Highlights,” session, which had capacity crowds during for the three times it ran. Replays of four of the most popular
Lectures are available to watch anytime:
You can also watch some of the most exciting highlights of SAP TechEd
here.
News that made global headlines
Wrapping it all up, here are some of my favorite headlines from the media:
SAP Unveils SAP Data Hub to Pave the Way to Digital Innovation (CMSWire)
SAP Reduces Big Data's Time to Value (Datamation)
SAP Conceives New Data Hub for Era of Disaggregated Information (Wall Street Journal)
This profitable Google-backed startup just inked a key deal with SAP as it eyes a 2019 IPO (Business Insider)
SAP Cloud is Embracing the Open Source World (SDxCentral)
SAP Announces First Co-Innovation Customers, Partners in Blockchain Initiative for Internet of Thing... (IoT Business News)
SAP’s Björn Goerke Goes Boldly Beyond at SAP TechEd (iChainnel)
SAP Data Hub debuts at SAP TechEd 2017 (SearchSAP, TechTarget)
SAP, Mendix ink deal to provide scalable app development platform to the enterprise (ZDNet)
Now it’s on to
SAP TechEd Bangalore and
Barcelona!
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SAP News Center.
